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The other KKK: how the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift tried to craft a new world
George Orwell thought they were ‘sex maniacs’. They thought they were spiritual samurai, rebuilding Britain after the Great War. With their magical rituals, outdoor living and utopian vision, they are the most fascinating of forgotten youth movements – and their ideas still resonate. By Jon Savage.
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Is that a gorilla on the International Space Station?
Ape in space: astronaut Scott Kelly celebrates his year in space in an unusual way. By Chiara Palazzo.
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Officials: Young Man Poses as Ohio Lawmaker, Tours School
A teenager posing as a state senator toured a high school and spoke to a class, and school officials didn't realize they were fooled until weeks later, authorities in Ohio said. Mohawk Local School District officials said Izaha Akins, of Marion, Ohio, visited the high school in December and...
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Double Trouble: Emilie Sagée and the Doppelganger Work Ethic
Doppelgangers are a pain in the ass. They have no respect for your personal space. Preternatural apparitions do badly in job interviews, so they are universally unemployed, leaving them ample free time to screw up your work and scare the neighbors...
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57 Questions About Campaign Spending, Starting With Ted Cruz’s Flower Budget
The campaign trail is, by all accounts, a greasy and exhausting slog. Also a slog? Sifting through hundreds of pages of campaign finance reports. By Cara Giaimo.
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Severed feet — still inside shoes — keep mysteriously washing up on Pacific Northwest shores
A 16th dismembered foot in a shoe was discovered in Vancouver this week. By Yanan Wang. (Feb. 11)
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‘The Last of the Mohicans’
Remembering Giorgio Gomelsky, 1934–2016. By Brian Cullman.
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Rare Bird Feasts on Grapes and Smucker's Jelly in Cape Breton,Nova Scotia
This Bullock's oriole is supposed to be in Central America this time of year.
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The Alchemy of Madness
Understanding a Seventeenth-Century “Brain Scan.” By Benjamin Breen.
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Unprecedented: Simultaneous January Named Storms in the Atlantic and Central Pacific
Simultaneous January named storms are spinning in both the Atlantic and Central Pacific, something that would have been unimaginable just a few decades ago. The earliest named storm on record in the Central Pacific, Hurricane Pali, formed on January 7, and now the Atlantic has joined the early-season hurricane party, with Subtropical Storm Alex spinning up into history in the waters about 785 miles south-southwest of the Azores Islands on January 13.
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7 of the Weirdest TV Shows That We Can’t Believe Really Existed
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Fleeting Wonders: 400 Glow-in-the-Dark Reindeer
If you're on the lookout for magical reindeer this year, don't bother gazing skyward... By Cara Giaimo.
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On the Hunt for America’s Last Great Treasure
Millionaire Forrest Fenn launched a thousand trips when he announced in 2010 that he had filled a chest with gold, rubies, and diamonds, and hidden it somewhere north of Santa Fe. By: Peter Frick-Wright. (Aug. 11)
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Have a Creepy Little Christmas with These Unsettling Victorian Cards
Anthropomorphic cats, murderous frogs, and insects dancing by the moonlight aren’t exactly part of our Christmas card tradition today.
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The Temple of Damanhur
Oberto Airaudi was 28 years old when he began his great work in 1975. By Dylan Thuras.
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Irish Fairies and Irish Food: The Mary Doheny Trial
“Now what, on earth, is going on in this account? The newspapers that wrote about Doheny described her as a ‘witch,’ but it would be closer to the truth to call her a ‘fairy woman’ or a ‘fairy doctor’: the nineteenth-century media, particularly in Britain, constantly misunderstood Irish fairy superstitions, confusing the same with witchcraft...” By Dr Simon Young.
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The Bermuda Triangle: Whatever became of the myth
Seventy years after the disappearance of five planes in the Atlantic, Giles Milton investigates one of the world’s most enduring aviation mysteries. By Giles Milton.
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11-foot gator eats burglary suspect hiding in Florida pond
Hide in a gator pond. Yeah, why not?
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Lakes are forming on top of Mount Everest’s glaciers
Pools of meltwater are coalescing into lakes on Mount Everest’s debris-strewn Khumbu Glacier. The accumulation of water makes the ice melt even more quickly. By Sarah Kaplan.
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Passing Out of Sight
A Chronicle of Strange Disappearances. By Scott Corrales.
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